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Timeline of entomology since 1900

Timeline of entomology since 1900 is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Timeline of entomology since 1900 rather than just read about it. In short: 1900 Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." He concurred with Carlos Finlay in identifying mosquitoes as the agent. Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia publishes Catálogo sinóptico de los ortópteros de la fauna ibérica.

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1900 Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." He concurred with Carlos Finlay in identifying mosquitoes as the agent. Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia publishes Catálogo sinóptico de los ortópteros de la fauna ibérica. Kálmán Kertész, Mario Bezzi, Paul Stein (entomologist) and Theodor Becker published the first part of a Palaearctic Catalogue of Diptera Katalog der Paläarktischen dipteren in Budapest. 1901 William Francis de Vismes Kane A catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland-the third (and first comprehensive) catalogue of the Irish macrolepidoptera. Augustus Daniel Imms General textbook of Entomology published. 10th revised edition (1977) still one of the most widely used of all insect texts. Thomas Hunt Morgan is the first to conduct genetic research with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In the Fly Room at Columbia University. 1902 Ronald Ross gained Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery that malaria is carried by mosquitoes. The awarding committee made special mention of the work of Giovanni Battista Grassi on the life history of the Plasmodium parasite. Charles W. Woodworth A List of the Insects of California published. Philogene Auguste Galilee Wytsman started Genera Insectorum, a multi-authored series that consisted of 219 issues, the last occurring in 1970. Otto SchmiedeknechtOpuscula Ichneumonologica. Blankenburg. William Morton Wheeler appointed curator of invertebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York August Arthur Petry publishes Ueber die deutschen an Artemisia lebenden Arten der Gattung Bucculatrix Z. nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Art in Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris Peter Esben-Petersen publishes Bidrag til en Fortegnelse over Arktisk Norges Neuropterfauna Last sighting of Rocky Mountain locust Initiation of Hopkins Notes and Records System at the USDA 1905 Adolfo Lutz Beitraege zur Kenntniss der brasilianischen Tabaniden. Rev. Soc. Sci. São Paulo 1: 19–32, published Raphaël Blanchard Les moustiques. Histoire naturelle et médicale Paris, F.R. de Rudeval, published. Gabriel Höfner Die Schmetterlinge Kärntens (1905-1915) 1906 Adalbert Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde commenced. This vast work on Lepidoptera was published in German, English and French. It contained colour plates of all important species. 1907 William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark commenced. Hamilton Herbert Druce On Neotropical Lycaenidae, with Descriptions of New Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Henry Christopher McCook Nature's Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects. Lajos Abafi Magyarország lepkéi (butterflies of Hungary) 1907 1908 Edmund Reitter Fauna Germanica - Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches commenced. This five volume masterwork remains in use today, almost 100 years from its inception. Leonello Picco Contributo allo studio della fauna entomologica Italiano. Elenco sistematico degli Emitteri finora raccolti nella Provincia di Roma. Arnold Spuler and Ernst Hofmann Die Schmetterlinge Europas (The Lepidoptera of Europe) was for decades a standard in the study of lepidoptera. 1909 George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain - British flies published. Carlos Chagas observed the peculiar infestation of rural houses in Brazil with Triatoma, a "kissing" bug, later demonstrating that it was the vector of Trypanosoma cruzi, and he was able to prove experimentally that it could be transmitted to marmoset monkeys that were bitten by the infected bug. His description of the new disease was to become a classic in medicine and brought him domestic and international distinction. Charles Nicolle reasoned that it was most likely lice that were the vector for epidemic typhus. He tested his theory by infecting a chimpanzee with typhus, retrieving the lice from it, and placing it on a healthy chimpanzee. Within 10 days the second chimpanzee had typhus as well. Antonio Berlese Volume I of Gli insetti loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti con l'uomo (Volume 2 1925). Arnold Pagenstecher Die geographische Verbreitung der Schmetterlinge published in Jena. Foundation of Journal of Entomology by Charles Fuller Baker, one of the first revues of economic entomology. Murinus Cornelius Piepers, Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen and Hans Fruhstorfer. The Rhopalocera of Java commenced. Completed 1918. 1910 Gilbert John Arrow published the first volume of The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Lamellicornia 1. Cetoniinae and Dynastinae. Arrow wrote five volumes of this classic work. Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Riodinidae. published in J. Wytsman Genera Insectorum 112A completed 1911). Hans Fruhstorfer published Family Pieridae in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World Thomas Hunt Morgan begins using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism for genetics studies 1912 Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius wrote Part 39 of Catalogus Coleopterorum Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912). Aurivillius worked on world insects. 1913

Charles Paul Alexander A synopsis of part of the Neotropical Crane-flies of the subfamily Limnobinae (Tipulidae). Erwin Lindner joined the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. Otto Kröber Therevidae.Genera.Ins published. Karl Eckstein Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Biologie commenced (finished 1933). G.D. Hale Carpenter joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and took the Doctor of Medicine examination in 1913 with a dissertation on the tsetse fly (Glossina palpalis) and sleeping sickness. 1914 Friedrich Georg Hendel Die Arten der Platystominen. Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 8 (1): 1–409, 4 pls. published Filippo Silvestri Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Termitidi e Termitofili dell'Africa occidentale. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia General e Agraria, Portici. 1915 Nathan Banks A Treatise on the Acarina, Or Mites the first comprehensive English handbook on mites. Reginald Punnett publishes Mimicry in Butterflies. Ottoman Syria locust plague in the Levant. 1916 The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, was first discovered in the United States in Riverton, New Jersey during mid-August 1916. 1919

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